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Saturday, August 23, 2008

An Unwanted House Guest

As most of you know, I am TERRIFIED of spiders. Something always seems to happen when Steve is away, and this time these two mixed. I was going outside to take the garbage out this morning and right on the corner of our back gate as I opened it up- a huge black widow mama with her egg sack. Let me tell you, this ain't no googled image either! I freaked as I saw her move. I jumped to get the trash can, then ran through the gate to set it on the curb. Now.... mission: get this spider. So I ran inside shaking like a leaf and grabbed a bottle of bug spray. I went back out to spray her and she was gone. I immediately look down at my feet and stepped around frantically to make sure its no where near me. Then I saw she went further in the corner. I "snapped" on that thing to say the very least, and stood their compulsively blasting it over and over until the bottle was about empty. Well it died of course, but what was I going to do with the egg sack filled with like 400 eggs? I wasn't waiting until a bug person could get out here. All I could think about is that if I wait, they could all hatch. Didn't want that. So I got the sack with a pitch-fork and set it on the rocks and torched it. However when the covering of the sack burned off, some of the eggs just spilled into the rocks... so I had to saturate that part with more spray we had. Then I marked the area with fluorescent spray paint for the bug man to look at first thing Monday morning. Aahhhhh, what an eewy morning!! I have to admit too... I got chills writing this!

2 comments:

Hibbard Family said...

Jennifer no joke that thing is huge. I've never seen an egg sack before. You poor thing, you have a lot of guts, girl! We found a black widow in the bathroom linen closet and drowned it in roach killer (the only one I had) and are waiting on the bug man. SO CREEPY!!!!

Anonymous said...

Those things are so bad. You poor thing. I got the chilly willies just thinking about your ordeal! Rhonda